Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kenya and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Soul II Soul to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Audionom,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Shuggie Otis,
Barry Ungar,
Crispian St. Peters,
U.S. Maple,
Maurizio,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Althea and Donna,
Alison Limerick,
Model 500,
Deakin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Public Enemy,
Von Mondo,
Porter Ricks,
Quantec,
The Motions,
Negative Approach,
48th St. Collective,
kango's stein massive,
Faust,
David McCallum,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Depeche Mode,
Niagra,
Blake Baxter,
Yusef Lateef,
Funkadelic,
Ronnie Foster,
Motorama,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Swans,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
China Crisis,
Fad Gadget,
The Mighty Diamonds,
David Bowie,
Faraquet,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Laurel Aitken,
Sonny Sharrock,
Toni Rubio,
Isaac Hayes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alphaville,
Vladislav Delay,
Pole,
Tears for Fears,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joy Division,
Graham Central Station,
Jeff Lynne,
the Normal,
Todd Rundgren,
Guru Guru,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.